Books About Books

Books about: other books, literacy in general, writers, bookstores, literary culture. Usually non-fiction, but can be fiction as long as books are a central plot theme.


The Time Hop Coffee Shop
The Bodyguard Affair
The Library of Fates
Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay
All My Bones (An Old Juniper Bookshop Mystery, #2)
The Award
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
How to Grieve Like a Victorian: A funny, heartwarming love story
An Academic Affair
The Burning Library
The Forget-Me-Not Library
The Bookshop Below
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Ladies in Waiting: Jane Austen's Unsung Characters
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, #2)
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
The Secret Christmas Library
The Ghostwriter
An Academic Affair
The Christmas Book Hunt
By Any Other Name
Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #2)
The Book Club Hotel
Any Trope but You
The Secret Book Society
The Bookstore Wedding (The Once Upon a Time Bookshop, #2)
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
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Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay
Kristy's Great Idea by Ann M. MartinDouble Love by Francine PascalJust as Long as We're Together by Judy BlumeForever... by Judy BlumeThe Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
Paperback Crush
295 books — 25 voters
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin SloanDewey by Vicki MyronThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Books set in libraries or bookstores
239 books — 130 voters

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele RichardsonThe Little Paris Bookshop by Nina GeorgeThe Giver of Stars by Jojo MoyesThe Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny ColganThe Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Traveling Libraries
115 books — 26 voters
Book Lust by Nancy PearlWhen Books Went to War by Molly Guptill ManningHowards End Is on the Landing by Susan         HillThe Novel Cure by Ella BerthoudEx Libris by Anne Fadiman
Books Recommending Books
149 books — 44 voters


The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Book Thief
84, Charing Cross Road
The Library Book
The Thirteenth Tale
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
Fahrenheit 451
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Reading List
Book Lovers
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief, #1)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

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